Peter Turkson

Peter Turkson (11 October 1948-) was a Ghanaian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church from 2003.

Biography
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson was born in Wassaw Nsuta, Ghana to a Roman Catholic father and a Methodist mother. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1975, and he served as Archbishop of Cape Coast from 1993 to 2003, when Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal-Priest of San Liborio. Turkson was a moderate; he was friends with the future Pope Francis, condemned neoliberal economics during the Great Recession, supported an "ethic of solidarity" among rich and poor nations, and championed developing countries, but he reaffirmed the Catholic moral teaching on contraception, asserted that the stigmatization of homosexuality in Africa was traditional and should be respected, and claimed that African traditional systems protected children from being molested by priests.